Delhi We had been crossing paths with the banking unions all week in Delhi. We had met a leader of the large, 230,000 member independent union from Mumbai at the UNI meeting. We had met the general officers and staff of AITUC, the union central with most of the members. We had …
Month: October 2007
Community Labor Intersections in India
Delhi The farther away from the source and closer to the ground, perhaps the more people understand our work? At the end of a day of meetings with people who either worked with big NGOs or understood them cold, I started to think perhaps here closer to the heart of the situation people were …
Rag Pickers Union
Delhi I had met Sashi Bhushan on my last trip to Delhi. He was a colleague of Dharmendra’s and had gone with us to the redevelopment area on the outskirts of town. While in the car we started visiting, and he told me he was organizing a union of sorts of rag pickers …